The Hottie and the Nottie News

While only a dozen or so people actually saw The Hottie and the Nottie, the turnout was enough for readers of imdb.com to rank the Paris Hilton vehicle as the worst movie of all-time. Quite the dishonor.

When asked about the flick's flameout, co-star Christine Lakin said:

"With any project you take, you can't think about reviews and you can't think about the way a studio is going to market a film. I have no control over that. At the end of the day, people either love or hate Paris Hilton, and they will either want to go see the movie or they don't."

But did Paris' high profile - and less than stellar reputation - doom the film?

"I don't know if it necessarily hurt the movie for what this movie is. I think it actually could have helped for the genre. I think it was the way that maybe the whole movie was marketed," Lakin said. "It's an ensemble romantic comedy, and I think everyone who has seen the movie actually finds it to be really charming and really funny and very sweet in the end.

"But when it's marketed as a vanity piece that's not what you think it is, you think it's going to be one big music video, and it's not at all. The thing that's hard about it is I think she actually does a really nice job. She's much more relaxed and real then you have ever seen her onscreen. It's very endearing. It's kinda how she is in real life behind the scenes."

We haven't seen The Hottie and the Nottie, of course. Have you? Or anyone you know? What did they think of it?

As movie fans, we love our job.

Sometimes, however, we're stuck discussing films such as the Paris Hilton vehicle The Hottie and the Nottie. We don't want your pity - but we also don't want anyone going to see this junk. Hopefully, other critics agree with our assessment of the flick...

- It's hard to fault the filmmakers, because given the premise, it could have been much MUCH worse. -- ComingSoon.net

- Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash. -- Village Voice

- I would like to tell you this gross-out-on-camera is every bit as bad as its title implies, but that would not be entirely true. It is much, much worse. -- New York Observer

- Paris definitely wear the pants in this ho hum extra-lite romantic comedy, and I think I can pretty accurately report that she keeps them on down under, from beginning to end. -- News Blaze

The tagline for The Hottie and the Nottie is: "That's hot. That's not."

Moreover, this movie stars Paris Hilton.

Still, if you haven't been totally turned off to seeing the film, take a look at the trailer below and see if that changes your mind:

A week before Valentine's Day, the ultimate romantic stars in a new movie: yes, folks, Paris Hilton has a lead role in The Hottie and the Nottie.

And her co-stars didn't exactly know what to expect from the socialite.

"I didn't know what to expect going in quite frankly," Christine Lakin told MTV. "But I can't say enough about how much [Hilton] went out of her way to embrace both myself and my co-star [Joel Moore]; she was so lovely."

In the comedy, Hilton refuses to marry her on-screen boyfriend (Moore) until he finds a suitable suitor for her fugly best friend, played by Lakin.

"I truly look like a cavewoman in this film," laughed Lakin, who underwent two hours of makeup and prosthetics each day before shooting. "I had moles, acne and a unibrow! I was balding!"

The film will mark the first leading role for Paris, but Lakin swears that off screen, Hilton is anything but snotty. In fact, the twosome even spent girlie time bonding at the heiress's house.

"Her house was very nice, beautifully decorated and modest," Lakin said. "But her closet is to die for - absolutely gorgeous!